Fat Loss 101 – Understanding the Different Types of Body Fat Few things in this world garner as much collective agreement as the recognition that excess body fat is detrimental to health. In fact, body fat is the target of…
How to Get Fat-Adapted In the modern day, nearly all adults are glucose-adapted, but not fat-adapted. This scenario is a function of the relatively high carbohydrate intake that is typical in the Standard American Diet. All carbohydrates break down into…
Fat Adaptation and it’s Critical Role in Weight Loss There are basically two fuels that can be utilized by the human body for energy: carbohydrates and fat. The vast majority of people are routinely utilizing carbohydrates as their fuel and…
What Happens to your Metabolism when you Restrict Calories? Wouldn’t it be great if losing weight was simply a function of decreasing how many calories you ate? Everyone wants to manipulate calories to control their weight just like dollars determine…
More Problems with Calorie Counting While many people are obsessed with counting calories in an attempt to lose weight, it’s clear that a strict Calories In Calories Out (CICO) model is not as helpful as we would like to believe.…
Calories, part 1: Problems with Calorie Counting for Weight Loss We’ve been taught since middle school health class that 1 pound of fat equals 3,500 Calories and, therefore, creating a Calorie deficit of 500 Calories per day through diet and/or…
Fasting: Thoughts From My 6-day Fast I recently completed a 6-day fast and have a few thoughts to share about it. It’s not the first time that I’ve done a fast — I’ve done several 7-day fasts in the past,…
When Should I Start My Health Transformation? When contemplating a lifestyle change, we often get hung up on figuring out when is the best time to start. It seems that there’s never a “right time” to start. There’s always something…
GLP-1 Agonists — The New Weight Loss Drugs Another medication lauded for its potential as a weight loss drug was approved last month, called tirzepatide. It is an injectable medication, to be given once weekly, and is approved for use…
Weight loss: More than just calories When it comes to weight loss, the standard advice is to eat less and exercise more. This simple piece of advice pays homage to the Calories In, Calories Out theory that taught us the…
